Today is the deadline for all NFL teams to trim their rosters to 75 players. Some have already done so. With their third preseason game on Sunday, yesterday was the first of the always difficult cutdown days for the Minnesota Vikings. They had 89 players on the roster. Now, they have 81. They released the following eight players.
LB Terrance Plummer
OL Sean Hickey
DE Thieren Cockran
OL Austin Shepherd
DT Claudell Louis
QB Brad Sorensen
WR Marken Michel
TE Brian Leonhardt
Austin Shepherd is probably the biggest surprise of the eight. He was a seventh round pick last year but beat the odds and made the team. He even contributed during the season. Mostly as an extra lineman in short-yardage situation. He has NFL talent but ended up on the wrong side of the numbers game with the Vikings.
The Vikings have to trim another six players from the roster today. There could be a surprise among those six. It was reported yesterday that the Vikings are shopping center John Sullivan. A sixth-round pick in 2008, Sullivan had been the Vikings starting center since 2009. A back injury and the resulting surgery kept him on the sideline all of last season. Joe Berger started in his place. Healthy now, Sullivan has been battling Berger for the starting center job throughout training camp. If the shopping of Sullivan proves to be true it appears that Berger has won the battle.
Another 22 players have to be trimmed from NFL rosters by Saturday. Tough days.
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